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Sunday, December 11, 2011

The 2011 Countdown Continues with No. 22, The Coathangers

Continuing today, and culminating with REVERBERATIONS number one album of the year on December 31st (if my math is right), we’ll be counting down the top twenty-five records of 2011. I’m referring to this countdown as Twenty-five Faves because I have no pretenses about telling you what’s “best.” Sure, I think my taste is better than yours. But nobody died and made me Lester Bangs. And Lester could be arrogant, but I kind of think he would come down on the favorite side of the fave/best dichotomy. His criticism was nothing if not personal.


I've reviewed the majority of these selections. In the event that I have I'll simply recycle the original reviews, sometimes with a little new commentary. If it's a selection I haven't reviewed previously, I will dash off a new, brief, introductory review just for perspective.






At No. 22 it's the Coathangers. Here's a link to my review of Larceny and Old Lace:


http://stevemahoot.blogspot.com/2011/06/coathangers-larceny-old-lace-suicide.html